TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged. For instance, Microsoft bought Avere Systems in January, and Google picked up Anvato in 2016 to woo entertainment companies. We open these doorways.”

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Hollywood Cloud Computing Netflix Google 254

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In a world where we’ve seen newspapers crumbling, record labels struggling and Blockbuster imploding and making way for the rise of Netflix it seems kinda intuitive to most of us but we can’t quite place why this happens. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers. Incumbents feel threatened. They can’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US. 10x the experience. .”

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire Startup 380

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Customers now put big value on experience, social impact, empowerment, and feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Customers now put big value on experience, social impact, empowerment, and feedback.

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Customer Custom Competition Netflix 101

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2010

Blockbuster--which had been running a pilot program covering video games since 2009--said this week that it will expand beyond Cleveland, Ohio and Seattle, Washington, and provide its own video game rental service to all of its customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Much has been written recently about the requirement to focus today on the total customer experience, as a competitive edge or even for survival. The challenge I hear from savvy business owners and entrepreneurs operating on a shoestring is that providing a superior customer experience costs money.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

Maybe even as big as Netflix’ seemingly permanent mistake of not allowing Netflix subscribers to send a “your friend Arden thought you’d love this movie. Click here to watch it for free” link to their non-Netflix friends. Facebook is a big, smart company. But they’re missing a huge opportunity here.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Canoo has beta cars on site at its Los Angeles headquarters where prospective partners and customers can test out the vehicles, which were made by an undisclosed contract manufacturer based in Michigan. The company intends to go to market with an entirely new business model by providing customers with its cars for a monthly subscription fee.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to the company, it has tripled its revenue, and now counts such clients as McDonalds, Booking.com, Papa Johns, and Netflix as customers. ClickUp is led by Founder and CEO Zeb Evans. The company has now raised $535M in total. According to ClickUp, the funding will go to expand its footprint and hire talent.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2010

The firm said its customers now include such companies as Netflix, U.S. The firm, which is privately held, did not disclose actual financials, but said it has been seeing "strong momentum" and continuous quarter-over-quarter growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

link] Why (and who) she thinks will pay for premium Quibi content In a world of Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, why would a customer choose to pay the $4.99 monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi? We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Cable provider Comcast appears to be taking aim at online video sites, and has demanded that Internet Service Provider Level 3 pay the company fees in order to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast customers.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 28, 2014

Yes, most of that is from NetFlix and YouTube and others delivering entertainment content. If you are promoting the corporation as opposed to the product, short clips of the company’s previous projects with comments from enthusiastic customers would be appropriate. Ninety percent of all traffic on the Internet is in video form.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

According to the two, the move will make it possible for WD TV customers to stream TV shows and movies to their television through WD's hardware. WD's hardware already supported Netflix, Blockbuster, CinemaNow, Pandora, YouTube, and Facebook. The access to Hulu content requires a $7.99 a month subscription to Hulu Plus.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Joe Bayen: Grow Credit is the first platform to allow consumers to establish their credit, for free, using their subscription payments for services such as Netflix, HBO, or whatnot. Joe Bayen: The free plan restricts consumers to $15 a month that they can use towards their Netflix or their Spotify accounts.

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Netflix Platform Report Services 203

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2018

According to the two, Electronic Arts also acquired the Israeli team which had developed GameFly's streaming service for games, which had allowed videogame users to rent videogames via the Internet, much like one might stream videos using Netflix or other online streaming services. GameFly is led by CEo David Hodess. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2015

McBeard, which is also based in Los Angeles, provides custom content production and distribution to such clients as Coca-Cola, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Mary Kay, NBC Universal, Warner Bros., Mattel, Netflix, and AT&T. The company was founded byAlec McNayr and Alan Beard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Customers now put big value on experience, social impact, empowerment, and feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Your customers’ biggest need is not for more things. Your best strategy is to find more customers that fit the things you do best, rather than building more things.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Second, how to get leads.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. We''ve made it so people can customize us to only turn on movies and TV, and don''t have to see anything with music and books, for example. Before, people would sit down to watch Netflix at their desktop. It''s a very fractured process.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

Instead of sizing up new opportunities and actively courting every new customer, you start worrying about cutting costs, repeatable processes , and overtaking known competitors. As a consultant, I hate to see you lose that startup focus on innovation, change, and customers. As the pace of change is growing, it can happen very quickly.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We've only got 40-45 people, versus if you look at a Verizon or AT&T, where they have tens of thousands of people having to support their network and provide customer support. Our customer support is in-house, and we have a light-touch customer support model, and we don't have to manage a massive network.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

We provide full service, digital distribution and video-on-demand to iTunes, NetFlix, Hulu, Comcast, cable VOD, Time Warner, Cox, Dish Network, and AT&T. Your customer aren't used to using this kind of data to drive their marketing--how are they reacting to the analytics you can provide? That's how we make our money.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. Results from some of DataPop’s customers are even more impressive than the averages: • ABetterStay.com saw leads and conversion rates increase 125% and 72%, respectively, while decreasing its cost per lead by 29%. •

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Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. Ariel understood her customer?—?the So Why Does This Matter? the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. The following year, she stepped down as CEO, and by 2016, her company filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Boohoo.

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Startup Netflix Los Angeles Innocal 280

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

Why else would name brands with huge resources, like Blockbuster and Kodak , get overrun by upstarts like Netflix and Apple. If your business today is healthcare, it may be time to look for opportunities in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and digital data management, rather than just more unhealthy customers.

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Artificial Inteligence Netflix Resource Customer 146

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Define customer value as the only path to business value.

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Competition Organization Customer Custom 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Build your own marketplace platform.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Consumer value Once Jamie realized that he could not only sell tens of millions of dollars of home security cameras he also realized that he could get customers to sign up for a monthly subscription to keep the videos in storage in the cloud and review them after the fact.

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Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Netflix is a great example. A critique of group buying is that it can generate non-loyal, and often non-profitable, customers for merchants that attempt to use it. Monetizing content is going to be a moving target. The networks seem to be emphatic about monetization for the present.

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277